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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • infosegurval@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <eurolotto2006@nonomail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:21:41 +0200
Subject: EMAIL ONLINE LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION, (Contact claim agent for your prize claim).


Message-ID: <641c9acf2e5502f24f0d627230eb9ed2@localhost>
X-Sender: eurolotto2006@nonomail.com
User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-20051021
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


EMAIL ONLINE LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION, (Contact claim agent for your prize claim).

LA PRIMITIVA ESPAÑOL
INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT,
Guzman El Bueno137, 28003
Madrid, España.

REF Nº: ES-0415-2006/MAD.
BATCH Nº: ES-0006997-EU.

INTERNATIONAL WINNING NOTIFICATION/EASTER RESULT.

The Spanish Lottery board wishes to inform the beneficiary to this email address the results of the email address ballot lottery international program held on 15th of April. 2006. Your email account have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of EURO € 502,185 (FIVE HUNDRED AND TWO THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE EUROS) in cash credited to file REF Nº: ES-0415-2006/MAD.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over 100,000 names database, union
associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion is this year Spanish Easter Bonanza International Lottery Program of LA PRIMITIVA ESPAÑOL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.

Note that in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, always remember to quote your reference numbers in all correspondence with your claim agent. Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by people you might disclose your winning information to, any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
Winners will result to disqualification, so be warn !!!.


To file your claim, please contact our registered affiliated claims agent:

SEGURVAL AGENCIA DE SEGURIDAD S.A.
Plaza De Toledo, 014 Pta 65
28006, Madrid.
España.
E.mail: infosegurval@netscape.net

Note below your winning details for verification and processing of your winning prize.

REF Nº: ES-0415-2006/MAD.
BATCH Nº: ES-0006997-EU.
Lucky Nº: 2-10-26-40-45.
Ticket Nº: A46709.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Best regards,

Mr. Jose Fernando Molina
Online Coordinator.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam